Facebook, the Control Revolution, and the Failure of Applied Modern Cryptography
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was widely assumed by most tech writers and thinkers, myself included, that the Internet was a “Control Revolution” (to use the words of Andrew Shapiro, author of a book with that very title in 1999). The Internet was going to put people in control, to enable buyers to work directly with sellers, to cut out the middle man. Why? Because the Internet makes communication and commerce vastly more efficient, obviating the need for a middle man to connect us. Fast forward to 2011, and the world is vastly more centralized than it … Continue reading Facebook, the Control Revolution, and the Failure of Applied Modern Cryptography
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